A Students' Guide to Piaget

A Students' Guide to Piaget is a students' guide to the work of Jean Piaget, one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary psychology. It discusses Piaget's multifarious epistemological interests, his developmental psychology, and his solutions to the problems of mathematical epistemology. Piaget's contributions to education, as well as his early work on children's language and cognitive development, are also examined.
This book is comprised of 10 chapters and begins with an overview of the major problem that confronts students when they first encounter Piaget's work: why he has done it. Piaget's attempt to answer some very important questions in the branch of philosophy called epistemology is also considered. The next chapter introduces the reader to the basic concepts of Piaget's psychology and his concern with the development of intelligence. The discussion then turns to his views about the sensorimotor phase, pre-operational thinking, and operational thinking in children. A brief summary of developmental periods in Piaget's psychology is presented, and his solutions to the problems of mathematical epistemology are outlined. The remaining chapters focus on Piaget's preoccupation with genetic epistemology, his contributions to education, and his work on children's language and cognitive development. The final chapter analyzes some of the objections that have been raised or may be raised to Piaget's work.
This monograph will be a useful resource for psychology students.

Inhalt

Preface
List of Symbols Used
I Genetic Epistemology
Chapter 1. The Problems to be Solved
II Piaget's Developmental Psychology
Chapter 2. The Basic Concepts of Piaget's Psychology
Chapter 3. The Sensorimotor Phase and Pre-operational Thinking
The Sensorimotor Phase
The Pre-operational Phase
Chapter 4. Operational Thinking
Groups, Lattices and Groupings
Groupings of Classes and Relations in the Phase of Concrete Operations
The Language of Symbolic Logic
Logic and Psychology
The Limitations of the Concrete Operations Phase
The Phase of Formal Operations
Attainments of the Formal Operations Phase
Chapter 5. A Brief Summary of Developmental Periods in Piaget's Psychology
I Sensorimotor Phase
II Pre-operational Phase
III Phase of Concrete Operations
IV Phase of Formal Operations
III Epistemology and Psychology
Chapter 6. Piaget's Solutions to the Problems of Mathematical Epistemology
IV Perspective
Chapter 7. More about Genetic Epistemology
Chapter 8. Piaget's Contributions to Education
Chapter 9. Language and Cognitive Development
Chapter 10. Some Points of Criticism
References
Suggestions for Further Reading